Seriously Overworked… But Still Here!

I KNOW I haven’t been posting much at the site in the last month or two, but there has been a very good reason. Read more

Things You Wish You Could Say At Work…

LET’S FACE IT, we’ve all thought about it. Some of us have actually done it. For most of us our work life is never perfect, but sometimes it just gets so damn frustrating that once, just once, we wish you could just blurt out some home truths. Well for those of you facing the same dilemma I give you a list of things you really wish you could say out loud at work. Read more

I Want to Work For Google In Zurich!

IT TAKES A LOT to get me excited about things, unless of course I’m really pissed off at something, in which case you can measure the time from normal to apocalyptic in terms of nanoseconds and the trail of dead or dying bodies in my wake is usually a bit of a giveaway too… anyway I’ve just seen a bunch of photos from the Google Zurich office and I’m now officially jealous.

Actually I think it’s worse than that. Ah hell it’s much worse if I’m honest. I’m now lthinking about where I currently work, and the various outfits / offices I’ve worked in for the last – well lets just say “few decades” – and I’m beginning to realise that I’m way beyond jealous. Yup I’m actually really really pissed off.

Seriously folks, have you actually seen these offices? It’s like someone read my mind about the perfect place to work. It looks so perfect they probably don’t have a HR department or any accountants clogging up the place and bringing all the creative people down… but then again that would be too perfect wouldn’t it?

Just look at the few photos I’ve managed to glean from the ‘Net below and tell me you’re not completely jealous and now considering a career change… or at the very least that you’re not also considering going ‘postal’ on your current office in response to the way the ‘other half’ work/live. Read more